I am Old and Forgetful

I totally missed recognizing the sadness of last Saturday — the 11th. A national sadness? An international sadness? No, my friend. This sadness is truly GALACTIC!!!

Douglas Adams passed away 12 years ago Saturday. If you have to scratch your head, I wonder how you came to read my blog.

Here is a bit the humor of author Douglas Adams:

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…”“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in…” — Douglas Adams, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish

Towels — suitable for a host of thing including drying tears of laughter or sadness — are available in the lobby.

” “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

“So this is it,” said Arthur, “We are going to die.”“Yes,” said Ford, “except… no! Wait a minute!” He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur’s line of vision. “What’s this switch?” he cried.“What? Where?” cried Arthur, twisting round.“No, I was only fooling,” said Ford, “we are going to die after all.”

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”